Can recessions, or serious turning points in general, be predicted? Or do forecasters tend to assume that the future will continue as an extension of the near past. Theoretical evidence and practical observations tend to ...

In today’s knowledge based global economy, human capital is recognized as a key driver of success in all types of organizations. Career planning is a lifelong process. A career development plan is beneficial for both ...

Carlsberg beer is the leading beer brand in Cyprus and is brewed in the largest brewery on the island, the Cyprus Carlsberg brewery.
It is produced in Cyprus under license since 1969.
The Cyprus Carlsberg brewery is ...

This paper deals with a new low level feature that is extracted from the images and can be used for indexing and retrieval. This feature is called “Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor” and incorporates color and texture ...

During the last decades much attention was given to bio-inspired techniques
able to successfully handle really complex algorithmic problems. As such
Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithms have been introduced as a ...

Various studies have employed quantitative and qualitative methods in order to explore the process of behavioral change emerging during a drug addiction treatment, i.e. the factors both encouraging and discouraging such ...

Komodromou, Georgia(Master in Public Administration, Shcool of Business, Neapolis University Pafos, 2015)

This study explores how children understand television advertising and it concentrates on how differently each child responds according to his/her age (6 to 11 years old). It is essential to mention that 36 focus groups ...

How successful have economists and other business forecasters been in predicting recessions? This
question is of considerable practical value since the level of economic activity greatly influences
budgets and other plans ...

The classification of uses is one of the central issues of urban planning, since it is only by
referring to groups of uses that we can achieve the simplification and, ultimately, the understanding
of urban space. However, ...

In classical statistics, inferences about the popula- tion mean, confidence intervals, or testing of hypoth- eses are based on the sampling distribution of X. For the statistician or the mathematically sophisticated, there ...

Due to the rapid development of information technology and the continuously increasing number of available multimedia data, the task of retrieving information based on visual content has become a popular subject of scientific ...

Recent studies have strongly criticised conventional VaR models for not providing a coherent risk measure. Acerbi provides the intuition for an entire family of coherent measures of risk known as “spectral risk measures” ...

Image indexing refers to describing the visual multimedia content of a medium, using high level textual information or/and low level descriptors. In most cases, images and videos are associated with noisy and incomplete ...

Aggregating information by combining forecasts from two or more forecasting methods is an alternative to using just a single method. In this paper we provide extensive empirical results showing that combined forecasts ...

In this paper, a novel low level feature for content based image retrieval is presented. The proposed feature structure combines color and spatial color distribution information. The combination of these two features in ...

In the context of Linked Data (LD) sources, the ability to traverse links and retrieve further information can be exploited to harvest semantic annotations. Such annotations can, in turn, underpin the inference of semantic ...

The epigram "Είς τόν εαυτού πατέρα" by John Geometres is considered a lyrical sepulchral poetic masterpiece, since it densely captures the poet's emotional state within 11 lines. The particular epigram has already been ...

In 1982, the Journal of Forecasting published the results of a forecasting competition organized
by Spyros Makridakis (Makridakis et al., 1982). In this, the ex ante forecast errors of 21 methods were
compared for forecasts ...

This paper studies different types of commitment policy in an economy where the deterministic steady state is inefficient. We show how a policy suggested by the approach of policy design entails positive long-run inflation, ...